workshop was organised to provide an opportunity for a more detailed discussion by a group of leading health policy analysts of … competition’ is being touted as the answer to the weaknesses in their health care systems. …

Proceedings of a conference organised by the Productivity Commission and the Melbourne Institute of Economic and Social … Research held on 7-8 March 2002 to explore key policy issues facing Australia's health sector. The Roundtable drew together … thirty leading practitioners and analysts on health policy issues. The topics covered included international developments in …

„h Australia¡¦s surge in productivity growth in the 1990s fuelled an acceleration in growth in total income and average … to 2.5 per cent in the 1990s. ¡V Faster productivity growth accounted for over 90 per cent of the acceleration. „h The … capital shares in economywide income were stable throughout the 1990s. Concerns that productivity-enhancing factors have …

would be needed in key human service areas, such as health and aged care, where the pressures of an ageing population will … raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …

This paper investigates the relationship between health care market structure and utilization of preventive care … believed that preventive health care services are important due to their cost-effectiveness which would prevail under managed … in general, and how the latest changes in health care market have been affecting it. These are the primary research …

This paper presents the National Health Accounts (NHA) methodology and its relevance in policy making in the Latin … activities, the paper will focus on policy applications of NHA and its usefulness in supporting the financial dimension of health … institutionalization), the main message of this paper is a normative one: NHA should become the Management Information System for health …

The economic cost of the U.S. health care system goes beyond the cost of prescription drugs, doctor office visits and … being an industrialized economy. The high health care costs drive jobs, human capital and technology to countries where … wages and health care costs are lower as companies attempt to survive. This holistic perception to health care cost is a …

unascertained but highly probable improvements in productivity in the main fields of health care. Within our observation period of …The richer a country, the higher its expenditure on health care. The increase in health spending which compared to the … economic growth and the expansion of other countries’ health care systems, Austria’s system grew below average- a fact which …

between private hospitals, doctors and the health insurance funds; and . draws attention to a number of policy issues germane …